When you close your eyes and think about your dream house, you might imagine a vast villa or a castle-like structure with an enormous swimming pool with a custom-built waterfall, walking tracks, tennis courts, and sitting plazas. For some people, portable saunas, massive libraries, and rotating ballrooms might define the idea of luxury. Let’s be honest. It will be next to impossible to own any of these things for an ordinary person. Apart from your imagination, these exist in some of the most expensive houses in the world. Here are some of the most expensive houses that will make you drool. Here is the list of 5Most Expensive Homes In The World
- Buckingham Palace- London, United Kingdom
Buckingham Palace, originally known as Buckingham House is a London royal residence and the administrative center of the monarch of the United Kingdom. With a net worth of 6.7 Billion Dollars, this contains 775 rooms post office, a cinema, a swimming pool, a doctor’s surgery, and a jeweler’s workshop. At the palace’s rear is the largest garden in London, which used to hold royal milestones and mournings.
- Antilia- Mumbai, India
Antilia, named after the mythical island, is owned by the Indian billionaire, Mukesh Ambani. The private sky-scrapper mansion has 27 stories with amenities like 3 helipads, 9 high-speed elevators, a ballroom, a spa, a snow room, a terrace garden, and much more. The house is designed to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake. The net worth of the house is around $2 Billion. What’s even more interesting about this house is the remark of the former tata group chairman, rattan tata. He said that Antilia is an example of rich Indian’s lack of empathy for the poor.
- Villa Leopolda- Cote D’Azure, France
Villa Leopolda gets its name from its earliest owner, Kind Leopolda who built the house for his mistress. Lily Safra is the current owner of the villa who inherited it after her husband’s death. With a net worth of $750 Million, this 80,000 square feet villa has a huge swimming pool and excessive gardens that require the daily work of 50 gardeners. The house has been used as a set in the movie To Catch a Thief.
- Villa Les Cèdres, French Riviera
Originally built for the king of Belgium in 1830, this house has a net worth of $430 million. With an area of 18,000 square feet, this house has 14 bedrooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a man-made pond with Amazonian lily pads, a wood-paneled library containing 3000 books on flora and naturalism, a bronze statue of Athena, and a dozen more amenities.
- Les Palais Bulles, France
Les Palais Bulles, or the Bubble Palace is an extraordinary house shaped like bubbles. The Hungarian architect designed this house as a form of play- spontaneous, joyful, and full of surprises. The house comprises 10 bedrooms, a reception hall, a panoramic lounge, a 500-seat open-air amphitheater, various swimming pools, and waterfalls on extensive landscaped grounds. This estate has an estimated value of $385 Million.
Living in such a luxurious house is a dream for many but buying is not the only way out. Renting can turn out to be much more economical. Check out our article on why renting is preferred over buying a house.
